--- title: "Break a leg" is a theatre way of saying good luck. — Show day: the exhibition, the concert and the bi… · tree and pragmatics description: "Break a leg" is a theatre way of saying good luck. Who acts: good luck. A sentence of the lesson «Show day: the exhibition, the concert and the big arts quiz» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/40-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/) / [Show day: the exhibition, the concert…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/40-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz/) / 12 # Show day: the exhibition, the concert and the big arts quiz, sentence 12 "Break a leg" is a theatre way of saying good luck. **Who acts:** good luck · **What happens:** break, be, say · **To what, where:** leg, theatre way · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Show day: the exhibition, the concert and the big arts quiz» of the arts course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good luck), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:040-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz.lesson:12 # text = "Break a leg" is a theatre way of saying good luck. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 040-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Break break VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 nsubj _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 theatre theatre NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 of of SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 11 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 acl _ _ 12 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 luck luck NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break** *in a quote* | infinitive | | a leg | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | present | | a theatre way | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | good luck | a theatre way *not said here* | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent way=Topic | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:arts:040-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz.lesson:12`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Show day: the exhibition, the concert…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/40-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz/11/) - next →: [Show day: the exhibition, the concert…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/40-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/40-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz/)